{"id":152495,"date":"2026-06-04T23:40:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152495"},"modified":"2026-06-04T23:40:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:40:58","slug":"us-citizen-and-journalist-charged-with-acting-as-chinese-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152495","title":{"rendered":"US citizen and journalist charged with acting as Chinese agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA US citizen who lived and worked for state media in China for several years pleaded guilty on Thursday to acting as a foreign agent for Beijing after allegedly collecting US$100,000 in return for collecting intelligence in the US on \u201cAmerican targets\u201d and American politicians.<br \/>\nAccording to court documents, Thomas Weir Pauken II worked at the \u201cdirection and control\u201d of Chinese officials linked to China\u2019s Ministry of State Security from at least 2019 until February 2026, with someone using the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3356019\/us-citizen-and-journalist-charged-acting-chinese-agent?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA US citizen who lived and worked for state media in China for several years pleaded guilty on Thursday to acting as a foreign&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152495"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}